Books by Tina Howe

Comedy / 3m, 2f / Int. Newly revised! Recently produced in 2006 at the Atlantic Theatre Company in New York City, this witty and sophisticated satire by the author of One Shoe Off and other popular comedies, this play takes place during a child's fourth birthday party. The boy's parents have invited another couple, anthropologists renowned for their international studies of childhood behavior. The adults become so involved in debating various theories of child rearing and telling each other s

Cal and Ellen are the owners and sole staff of a small, elegant gourmet restaurant. Cals main preoccupation is paying back the $75,000 it cost to start it up, and that means packing in the customers. Chef Ellen is preoccupied with the foods quality and stopping Cal from sampling the ingredients. The diners act out their own private dramas over dinner and their conversations are exquisite burlesques of contemporary attitudes. Theres a sensual middle aged couple who go into paroxysms of ecstasy just reading the menu and then theres three crass chic young career women. Finally, theres Elizabeth, a maladroit, shy and neurotic writer whos dining with her prospective publisher. Her actions and conversation are unintentionally hilarious and a delicious example of how not to act and what not to talk about while dining.

ComedyCharacters: 3 males, 4 femalesInterior SetIn Tina Howe's comedy, Chasing Manet, a rebelliouspainter from a distinguished family in Boston and anebullient Jewish woman with a huge adoring familyform an unlikely bond. Inside the confining walls ofMount Airy Nursing Home, the two plot an escape toParis aboard the QE2. But can they possibly pull it offamidst the chaos of their surroundings? The tension andcomedy grow as they struggle to take wing for the lasttime.

Seven Brief Plays About Women in DistressTo go through life as a woman is to be in distress most of the time, so these short plays alight on situations that are inherently distressing -- doctor visits, photo shoots, looking for the right dress and navigating around swimming pools. Since we're blessed with uncanny reserves of strength and imagination, we tend to emerge triumphant. One way or another these are comedies about transformation.Plays include: Appearances The Divine Fallacy Throu